This is where I’m supposed to blog about my first day without using twitter to spout off every 2 minutes. And so I shall.
Today “seemed” productive. Of course I got into work just after 9 and everyone else was out having been up all night with the server move. Though the whole ride in on the bus I was chomping at the bit to tweet this guy and celebrate his first day of school, as witnessed by the tag still attached to his new dockers. Weee! Fought the urge to snatch it off as he walked by.
Look, ma! New pants!
Played with OmniFocus more as I filled out tasks for projects I’d created but never elaborated on. I like the concept of GTD but I sense it’s not for people with ADD. You have to remember and be motivated to check your list all the time. I’m bad at both. But, I think I can give it a shot with OmniFocus’ location awareness on the iPhone. If I can set it up properly hopefully I can remember to bring it up when I get home, to work, to the store, etc..
iTunes 8 is looking pretty snazy. Got a PowerBook from a friend and finally setup the media center I wanted so we can relax on the couch in the front room and watch movies and listen to music. Sat on the couch last night doodling with the computer and listening to music with the new iTunes 8 visualizer running on the screen.
Hooked up some old speakers I had and shoved the sub woofer in the back of the piano – which the whole center sits on. Now the whole piano acts to resonate the bass. Whoa. Had to turn it down a lot.
I should post this before I throw it in drafts again and forget about it. Most of this post was written in the WordPress iPhone app while on the bus – I’ll save how fucked up the Seattle bus system is for another post.
Later.
Can anyone tell me what the hell is going on here?
That is all.
I was busy getting other posts ready but I had to jump in wit this! OMG, check this out! What the heck is it?! Write a winning caption and you can do a guest post.
P.S. I was so going to send this to you, Gorilla Sushi, but it was too good not to use myself first.
Today, on “Where Are They Now”: the story of a drug crazed.. who wait.. wrong post…
So, plenty of people, throngs even – okay one – have asked, “Rev! How DO you do those snazy polls for Poll-a-pallooza!?” The answer is simple, wp-polls.
Hell, I’ll even throw in a free tip! If you create a poll and put it in your post, don’t also display it in the side bar widget. This confuses the javascript running the poll and it will fail to register the votes properly. (Learned this one the hard way.)
Okay, have fun rockin’ out to Poll-a-pallooza! More polls coming to the second stage soon!
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I’ve been using wp-hascash for a while not and it was a bit of a pain in the ass to setup at first. There’s making sure you have the wp_head called before the closing </head> tag and comment_form called before the closing </form> tag in comments. But I started running into another error that was visibly manifesting itself as my other scripts on the page failing to fire and thus some visuals all out of whack.
After digging around a bit in the debugger and google I found this little bit of info that has fixed every issue I’ve had with wp-hashcash in the last few version of WordPress and wp-hashcash.
Error: document.getElementById(“wphc_value”) is null
so as to avoid this, it’d better to check beforehand if it’s null. So to say:
change line 372 from
echo “addLoadEvent(function(){document.getElementById(‘wphc_value’).el.value=wphc();});\n”;
to:
echo “addLoadEvent(function(){var notNullWphc= document.getElementById(‘wphc_value’); if(notNullWphc){notNullWphc.value=wphc();}});\n”;
Hopefully this will help folks out there suffering form the same “WTF?!” situation.
P.S. wp-hashcash works very well.
WARNING: Doing this with FileVault on will lock you out of the files in the user directory. Pretty much for ever. Double check. It’s not on by default. But you never know. And access to the key chain can be a littel fowled up. Just nuke it and start over.
I recently picked up a PowerBook from a friend. Oh how long I have lusted after the PowerBook. And let me tell you. It’s SO sexy. I mean, I have a BlackBook, technically a superior machine. But this… this is like race car sexy….aaaany who. That’s not the point. Point is he gave it to me and didn’t give me the password. After some googling around I found the answer, as follows:
- Reboot the system and hold down Command(Apple key) – S
- At the prompt type: /sbin/fsck -y
- and then: /sbin/mount -uw /
- and finally: passwd <username>
What this does is reboot into single user mode (Oh Noes! Command Line! Text!!!). Then the next two commands (Listed above the prompt in Leopard) will mount in read/write mode the file system (You really don’t need to know this) and lastly typing passwd followed by the user whose password you want to change will prompt you for a new password and ask you to verify it.
Reboot and you’re done!
Even more wonderous polls to enlighten and amuse you!
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Have at them! Know that your answers for the last polls were educational indeed and helped, at least in my eyes, settle a debate. I’ll leave it to you as to which one it was.
Since I post so infrequently on this site sometimes thoughts back up. In this case thoughts that include polls that can’t really be quickly blasted out across twitter. So here are two that have come up in conversation lately.
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Let’s see if this thing can handle two polls in one post. As always, thank you all for participating in this very scientific research. Your donations to the common knowledge go far behind simply amusement. They… no.. who am I kidding… it’s all for a chuckle.
I’ve been having issues with Vista, of course. It can get into a state where SOMETHING on the system freaks out and I can’t even pull task manager up. I can see it’s icon in the dock going all crazy, but I can’t bring up the task list window and try and fix problems.
What I really wanted was top for windows. But I couldn’t find that, sometimes being all graphical is a bad thing. But I did manage to find something close enough to what i was looking for: taskkill. Use it thusly,
taskkill /IM taskmgr.exe
This should kill off that pesky process/app gone mad. As it was I ran it on task manager and my system returned to normal. So next time you need to kill something like firefox and task manager just won’t come up – how likely is that, really? – try taskkill.
P.S. I have a Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0Ghz system with 2 Gigs of RAM and my experience “Rating” is 3.4.
I loath you, Vista.
I’ve been trying to remember to blog I’ve got a number of good fixes to document including wp-hascash error corrections and getting wifi to work properly in Ubuntu with an Atheros chipset. But I’m just so overwhelmed with work and life. Oh well. Soon.
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